CP Political Report

The Communist Party of Britain held its 55th Congress in Croydon on November 17-18, 2018. This pamphlet features the main resolution as presented by the outgoing Executive Committee and amended by delegates in the course of debate. A full record of 55th Congress attendance, elections and resolutions will also be published.

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Britain's deepening social crisis confirms the urgent need to replace Theresa May's minority regime with a left-led Labour government, Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths declared at the weekend.

Reporting to his party's Executive Committee, he slammed Dame Judith Hackitt's review of building regulations in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster and the Tory response. She had stopped short of calling for a ban on combustible cladding, while Housing and Communities secretary James Brokenshire had promised a 'consultation' on the Hackitt report followed by unspecified legislation.

'There is nothing new about "fake" news - the capitalist media monopolies have been pumping it out for more than a century', Steve Johnson told the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening (November 15).

He cited the infamous example of the 'Zinoviev Letter' in 1924, when the Daily Mail and British press reported that the head of the Communist International had sent instructions to Britain's Communists to engage in violent subversion.

George Osborne’s Budget tells us nothing new about the Chancellor or the government. It represents if anything an acceleration of the Conservative programme to transfer wealth from working people to the rich and to abolish or marketise the public sector.

The Communist Party Executive Committee met over this historic weekend and debated the radical shift in British working class politics. Read the full version of CP Trade Union Organiser Graham Stevenson's Political Report.